Spotlight: Great British Energy, record infrasturecture financing and "build, baby, build"

ENERGY

✒️ Statement of Strategic Priorities to Great British Energy | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

📰 Government sets out vision for Great British Energy | Transport + Energy

✒️ Golden age of nuclear delivers UK-US deal on energy security | Press release from DESNZ, The Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer KCB KC MP and The Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP

📰 UK and US unveil nuclear energy deal ahead of Trump visit | BBC News

📰 Nuclear projects among £150bn US investment plan for UK | Energy Voice

📰 Google picks Shell as 24/7 clean energy manager in UK | Renewables Now

📰 Grid delays trump planning ones these days |  Energy Live News

📰 Emerging opportunities for UK long duration energy storage | Netzeroinvestor

🗣️Written answer on Community Benefits | Michael Shanks the Minister of State for Energy Security and Net Zero

🗣️ Data centres and energy demands – how do we square the circle? | Simon Rawlinson

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‍ INFRASTRUCTURE

✒️Chancellor appoints infrastructure and planning adviser to clear path for new investments | Press Release from HM Treasury and The Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP

📰UK infrastructure financing on track to reach record high | Financial Times (paywall)

📰 UK built environment sector outpaces all other sectors | pbc today

📰 East Midlands unveils UK’s first inclusive growth plan | Public Sector News

📰 What could stop the UK from delivering its infrastructure ambitions? | New Civil Engineer (paywall)

📰 Built environment sector worth twice as much as financial services to UK economy | The Planner (paywall)

📰 UK’s first green shipping corridor is in the making | Offshore Energy

📰 The devil in the detail: Why data is crucial for the success of UK devolution | pbc today

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DEVELOPMENT

✒️ More than £1.1 billion investment to boost growth, jobs and skills in UK’s coastal towns and cities | Press Release from Department for Transport, The Rt Hon Heidi Alexander MP and Keir Mather MP

🗣️ Partnerships are the engine powering the UK’s affordable housing goals | Column by Anette Simpson for Inside Housing (paywall)

📰 New housing secretary calls on sector to ‘build, baby, build' | Building Design

📰 Government updates national flood risk planning guidance to clarify ‘reasonably available’ sites | Planning Resource (paywall)

📰 New UK sustainable drainage regulations will bolster the climate resilience of developments | Edie

📰 Gov action needed before London housing delivery fails, says HBF | pbc today